Subject: Re: PKGMANDIR
To: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/10/2007 18:28:34
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> > To be honest, I routinely use the
> > following on my systems:
> 
> > 	PKGMANDIR=	share/man
> > 	PKGINFODIR=	share/info
> 
> > I have already fixed many packages to honor these two knobs, and the
> > process is typically extremely simple.  If we could generate a bulk
> > build using the above, we'd easily be able to identify the packages
> > that need to be fixed.
> 
> mkdir $PREFIX/man $PREFIX/info
> chmod 000 $PREFIX/man $PREFIX/info


I have done that for a few years now :)


> stops installing on very early stage
> and makes grepping for bugs a bit easier

  Jeremy C. Reed